Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
Three researchers including Carey Business School Assistant Professor Mario Macis say economic incentives can motivate members of the public to increase their donations of much-needed blood, the economists write in the May 24, 2013, issue of Science.
May 23, 2013 Tags: Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins, Mario Macis, Science Magazine, World Health Organization
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Business and Economics, Psychology, Public Health
It’s a parent’s worst nightmare: a young child is accidentally left in a locked car on a warm and sunny day. The closed windows turn the car into a greenhouse, and the child dies of heatstroke. In a key first step toward preventing such tragedies, three undergraduate engineering students at Johns Hopkins have turned technology from a popular video game player into a detector for children left behind in dangerously overheated vehicles.
May 15, 2013 Tags: heatstroke, Kinect, mechanical engineering, motion detector, student inventors, undergraduate design project
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Public Health, Student-Related News, Technology
The debate over American health care didn’t end with the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Now that the law is in place and its provisions are slowly becoming reality, the discussion has shifted to questions regarding whether the benefits are worth the costs, and whether we will actually be a healthier nation once every citizen has health insurance. Johns Hopkins University health economist Douglas E. Hough hopes his new book, which looks at the state of American health care through the lens of behavioral economics, will be helpful in framing this new wave of discourse in a more productive way.
May 8, 2013 Tags: Affordable Care Act, behavioral economics, health care, health care debate, health care economics
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Public policy
The Johns Hopkins University and Waverly Elementary/Middle School have partnered to teach young students about the benefits of healthy eating and regular exercise through a program called Food as Medicine. A special program event, the Safari of Health Fair, will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, April 26 at the school on 701 E. 34th St. Baltimore, MD 21218.
April 24, 2013 Tags: AmeriCorps VISTA, Food as Medicine, health fair, healthy eating, Waverly School
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Public Health, Student-Related News
Two professors at The Johns Hopkins University are available to discuss the horse meat incident. They say a culinary taboo is a distraction from the real issue: inadequate food inspection regulations.
February 20, 2013 Tags: Adam Sheingate, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Sidney Mintz
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Public Health, Social Sciences
Sifting through social media messages has become a popular way to track when and where flu cases occur, but a key hurdle hampers the process: how to identify flu-infection tweets. Some tweets are posted by people who have been sick with the virus, while others come from folks who are merely talking about the illness. If you are tracking actual flu cases, such conversations about the flu in general can skew the results. To address this problem, Johns Hopkins computer scientists and researchers in the School of Medicine have developed a new tweet-screening method that not only delivers real-time data on flu cases, but also filters out online chatter that is not linked to actual flu infections.
January 24, 2013 Tags: computer science, flu, influenza, Public Health, tweets, Twitter
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
A summit of more than 20 of the world’s leading gun policy experts has identified research-based policies to reduce gun violence in the United States. The policy recommendations were the result of a two-day Summit on gun violence convened by The Johns Hopkins University on January 14 and 15, The Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis.
January 15, 2013 Tags: firearms, gun policy, guns, jhugunpolicy
| Category: Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins-sponsored Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America convenes today [Monday, Jan. 14] and is available by webcast today and tomorrow for reporters wishing to cover it remotely.
January 14, 2013 Tags: Christopher Koper, Daniel Webster, firearms, gun policy, guns, Jeffrey Swanson, jhugunpolicy, Martin O'Malley, Michael R. Bloomberg, Stephen Teret
| Category: Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
For most of history, humans rose with the sun and slept when it set. Enter Thomas Edison, and with a flick of a switch, night became day, enabling us to work, play and post cat and kid photos on Facebook into the wee hours. However, according to a new study led by Johns Hopkins biologist Samer Hattar, this typical 21st- century scenario comes at a serious cost: When people routinely burn the midnight oil, they risk suffering depression and learning issues, and not only because of lack of sleep. The culprit could also be exposure to bright light at night from lamps, computers and even iPads.
November 14, 2012 Tags: Advance Online Publication, AOP, cortisol, depression, exposure to light at night, ipRGCs, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, limbic system, Nature, Prozac, Samer Hattar, Seasonal Affective Disorder, The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Psychology, Public Health, University-Related
The National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado has reported that there is less ice in the Arctic Ocean this summer than at any time since satellite measurements were first taken back in 1979, a finding that underscores the reality of global climate change. Johns Hopkins oceanographer Thomas Haine, who studies how the physics of ocean currents affects global climate, is available to put these findings into perspective.
August 29, 2012 Tags: Arctic sea ice, atmosphere, carbon dioxide, ecosystem, global warming, Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, NSIDC, The National Snow and Ice Data Center, Thomas Haine
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, Public Health, University-Related
After a surgeon stitches up a patient’s abdomen, costly complications—some life-threatening—can occur. To cut down on these postoperative problems, Johns Hopkins undergraduates have invented a disposable suturing tool to guide the placement of stitches and guard against the accidental puncture of internal organs.
August 16, 2012 Tags: abdominal surgery, biomedical engineering, surgery complications, surgical stiches, suture, undergraduate inventor
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Student-Related News
Could a low-cost screening device connected to a cellphone save thousands of women and children from anemia-related deaths and disabilities? That’s the goal of Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering undergraduates who say they’ve developed a noninvasive way to identify women with this dangerous blood disorder in developing nations.
July 24, 2012 Tags: anemia, biomedical devices, biomedical engineering, engineering undergraduates, global health
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Student-Related News, Technology
On Wednesday, May 23, the university’s Whiting School of Engineering will break ground for Malone Hall, a state-of-the-art, 69,000-square-foot research center named in honor of John C. Malone, a pioneer in the communications and media industries.
May 21, 2012 Tags: ground breaking ceremony, John Malone, Malone Hall, Russell Taylor, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
Amid growing concerns about the spread of harmful mercury in plants and animals, a new study by researchers from The Johns Hopkins University and The National Aquarium has compared levels of the chemical in captive dolphins with dolphins found in the wild. The captive animals were fed a controlled diet, while the wild mammals dined on marine life that may carry more of the toxic metal.
May 21, 2012 Tags: dolphins, environmental damage, marine mammals, mercury, mercury contamination, National Aquarium
| Category: Engineering, Environment, Natural Sciences, Public Health
A study led by Michela Gallagher of The Johns Hopkins University and published in the May 10 issue of the journal Neuron suggests a potential new therapeutic approach for improving memory and interrupting disease progression in patients with a form of cognitive impairment that often leads to full-blown Alzheimer’s disease.
May 10, 2012 Tags: aging, Alzheimer's disease, aMCI, Amy Shelton, Arnold Bakker, Carolyn Speck, cognitive impairment, Craig Stark, epilepsy, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Greg Krauss, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Lauren Jones, Lennart Mucke, Marilyn Albert, memory loss, Michael Yassa, Michela Gallagher, Susan Bassett, The Johns Hopkins University, UCSF, University of California at Irvine
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Psychology, Public Health, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School has reorganized to focus its degree programs on the study of business issues related to healthcare and the life sciences, Interim Dean Phillip Phan has announced. “We’re making this move not just because we are Johns Hopkins, with the best medical institutions in the world, but also because health care is an increasingly important part of the economic discussion in the United States,” said Phan.
May 3, 2012 Tags: Johns Hopkins; Carey Business School; Bloomberg School of Public Health; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; healthcare; life sciences; business degrees
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Business and Economics, Engineering, Environment, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, Technology, Uncategorized
The Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition, hosted by the Center for Leadership Education, provides an opportunity for students to take a novel idea or innovative technology and develop a business plan based around it. The competition will take place on Friday, April 27, in Hodson Hall on the Homewood campus.
April 25, 2012 Tags: Business Plan Competition, Johns Hopkins Business Plan Competition, Student Business Plan Competition
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Public Health, Social Sciences, Technology
The Johns Hopkins University performed $2 billion in medical, science and engineering research in fiscal 2010, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total research and development spending for the 32nd year in a row, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking. The university also once again ranked first on the NSF’s separate list of federally funded research and development, spending $1.73 billion in FY2010 on research supported by NSF, NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.
March 30, 2012 Tags: Applied Physics Laboratory, Lloyd B. Minor, National Science Foundation, R&D, research and development, The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Institutional News, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, University-Related
As researchers work to eliminate malaria worldwide, new strategies are needed to find and treat individuals who have malaria, but show no signs of the disease. The prevalence of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic malaria can be as high as 35 percent in populations with malaria and these asymptomatic individuals can serve as a reservoir for spreading malaria even in areas where disease transmission has declined.
February 7, 2012 Tags: Catherine G. Sutcliffe, epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, PLoS ONE
| Category: Public Health
The United Nations recently placed the crisis of non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries at the top of its agenda for global health and development. In an effort to develop a program for meeting this challenge, the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise (IHEGHSBE) at the Johns Hopkins University and the Global Health Council (GHC) will convene a workshop on Thursday, Feb. 9, bringing together leading experts in a range of disciplines to address gaps in related policy and research.
February 1, 2012 Tags: Global Health Council, Institute for Applied Economics Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise, United Nations
| Category: Government and Politics, Public Health
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Associate Professor Douglas Hough is available to speak to journalists as an expert on the economics of health care, including behavioral economics within the health care industry.
February 1, 2012 Tags: behavioral economics, Douglas Hough, health care expert, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Obama health care overhaul, presidential campaign, Supreme Court
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, University-Related
On Friday, Jan. 20, The Johns Hopkins University will hold a daylong meeting of nearly 300 faculty members, academic leaders, staff members and outside experts to consider innovative, more effective alternatives to traditional large lecture/lab introductory science classes for undergraduates, graduate students and professional students.
January 13, 2012 Tags: Gateway Sciences Initiative, Lloyd Minor, science education, STEM
| Category: Engineering, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, University-Related
Economic incentives can significantly increase blood donations from the public, according to a new study co-authored by a Johns Hopkins business professor.
The findings also suggest that similar methods could be used to build up life-saving supplies of human bone marrow, organs, and body parts for transplantation.
December 20, 2011 Tags: American Red Cross, blood, body parts, bone marrow, donors, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Mario Macis, Nicola Lacetera, organ, Robert Slonim
| Category: Business and Economics, Medicine and Nursing, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, Uncategorized
Six Johns Hopkins researchers have been elected by their peers as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Barry Zirkin of the Bloomberg School of Public Health; Kit Hansell Bowen and Sarah Woodson of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences; Andrew Feinberg and Min Li of the School of Medicine; and Paula Pitha-Rowe of the Kimmel Cancer Center are among 539 new fellows from around the world. Election as an AAAS fellow honors scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
December 20, 2011 Tags: AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Andrew Feinberg, Barry Zirkin, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Kimmel Cancer Center, Kit Hansell Bowen, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Min Li, Paula Pitha-Rowe, Sarah Woodson
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Public Health
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, in conjunction with the Food and Drug Law Institute, will hold a symposium, “Issues in Global Health: Advancing Efficiency and Quality through Regulatory Science,” from 7:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Dec. 2, 2011, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Funding is provided by Johnson & Johnson. Carey professors Toby Gordon and Dipankar Chakravarti are co-conveners of the event.
November 21, 2011 Tags: Dipankar Chakravarti, FDLI, Food and Drug Law Institute, inspection issues, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Johnson & Johnson, Lloyd Minor, medical-device companies, pharmaceuticals, Toby Gordon
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Business and Economics, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Uncategorized
